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Blood Count: the meta post

Posted over 2 years ago

Artist:
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Duke Ellington
Album:

Highlights From The Centennial Edition
Track:
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Blood Count

did this a while back with "Cowgirl in the Sand":http://mog.com/Grievous_Angel/blog_post/77632 realized i had 8 different versions of Blood Count, the last tune Billy Strayhorn wrote before he died in 1967 of cancer. it's powerful, poignant, wistful, melancholy, angry, passionate...in short, the blues, beautifully played on the Duke's tribute to strayhorn by the great Johnny Hodges, several additional versions to follow in the comments.

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Grievous Angel says Stand Getz, who made Blood Count something of a signature tune, from Pure Getz
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and live at Tivoli in Copenhagen
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Grievous Angel says Joe Henderson, from his tribute to Strayhorn, Lush Life
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A version with Fluglehorn, from Art Farmer's Something to Live For, likewise a Strayhorn "tribute" album
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Grievous Angel says saving the best for last "My man Mr. Watson":http://mog.com/Grievous_Angel/blog_post/112873 on alto
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Norris Turney, equally at home on flute and alto, who replaced Hodges on tenor in the Ellington band
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Bartleby says Wow, a whole album with just one song/theme. We could start with this "Blood Count." Of all the versions proposed Duke's and Henderson's are the ones for which I feel the most. I need to get back to your post and re-listen... (To be continued then)

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Grievous Angel says it's a bit unfair i suppose to take them as one-offs, in a sense they all work better integrated into the whole of their respective albums, and "And his Mother Called Him Bill" may be my fave Ellington album, along with the New Orleans and Far East Suites. I'll do a whole Big Sweet and Blue post as well, 'cause i really love Turney's fat tenore sound.

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